Hello beautiful souls,
I'm Marie Blythe and welcome to the Mystics Manual podcast where we explore the heart-centered how-to of energy healing,
Metaphysics,
Intuition,
And all things mystical and magical.
Hello Mystics and specifically empathic mystics.
Today we're going to talk about clairsentience as an intuitive gift.
Clairsentience or empathy is the spiritual or intuitive ability to be able to feel energy moving in the body.
What we as humans call emotion often.
But it's not necessarily just emotion that we are sensing and feeling,
Although that's how we often identify ourselves as being an empath.
That we can feel what others are feeling.
But there are many different varieties of empath.
There are many different ways that us as an individual can feel into energy,
Whether that be emotional energy of other individuals,
Of our environment,
Of the collective,
Of the earth.
And because the journey of the empath is so difficult sometimes,
As we learn to navigate our gifts,
To heal our wounds around our gifts,
To repair our energy body and create solid boundaries and all of the things that come with the path of the empath's journey.
Something that I wanted to talk about today was the importance of empathy as an intuitive gift.
Because it often gets a bad rap.
Or we often maybe think in that difficult journey that we're on,
How come I ended up with this as my primary intuitive gift?
How come I didn't get to be clairaudient or clairvoyant as my primary gift?
Because that would have been a lot easier.
Now,
What I will say is the more that we develop and grow spiritually,
The more all of our gifts actually come online.
So there's this energy dynamic in the energy body that's part of the spiritual awakening process.
And part of the energy alignment process in our field,
That when our eighth chakra,
Which is often called the soul star chakra,
And this is one that is above the crown chakra,
So it's above the seventh chakra,
Comes online and fully activates and integrates within our energy body,
We actually are able to begin using all of our intuitive gifts harmoniously with one another.
So when we first start to activate our intuition,
Or we have an intuitive awakening,
Which for some of us,
We come in with that.
We're born with our intuitive gifts online.
And other individuals develop this over time as a part of their spiritual awakening journey.
Sometimes people have a specific experience in life or that brings them online for that person.
But usually when we're first starting to activate or become aware of our intuitive gifts,
We may be aware of our primary gift.
So the strongest gift that we have or the most obvious gift to us.
And so this is how people often identify as empaths.
That's often because clairsentience or clear feeling is their primary intuitive gift.
So it's the strongest or most obvious gift to that individual.
And it's the easiest one to access.
And so our primary gift is often a gateway into the other gifts.
But as we develop spiritually,
As we heal,
As we release trauma and repair wounds from our past or from our lineage's past,
From our soul's past,
We begin to align our energy body more and more to where our other intuitive gifts can start to come online.
And sometimes we first experience our gifts as being separate from one another.
So only feeling or only hearing,
Only seeing.
And then as we grow more and more,
We maybe start to experience these together.
Like we may have a deep feeling in our body as clairsentience of what someone's feeling,
But we also might get a clear cognizant knowing as to what's causing that feeling sense.
Or we may get an image in our mind about what's going on in their energy body that's causing them to feel a certain way.
So we start to experience our gifts with one another or together.
And then as our eighth chakra gets activated and aligned in our energy body and comes online more and more,
Our gifts start to work more seamlessly together as a holistic unit.
And when this happens,
Then as empaths,
If you're somebody that's really struggled with empathy and the burden that that can be because all of your intuition and all of the information that's coming in is coming in through the felt sense,
When we activate that eighth chakra,
Then there are other senses that we can draw from to receive and interpret information through our body.
And it takes the pressure off of our empathic gifts.
So instead of receiving it as a felt sense,
As an emotion in our body,
As a pain in our body,
As exhaustion,
As anxiety,
As overwhelm,
Instead,
We may begin to experience that as a knowing,
As information coming in.
We might hear something that tells us what's going on.
We might see an image in our mind that tells us what's happening in our environment or with others around us rather than having to feel it all.
So that's a really important piece to understand as an empath because it means that your empathic gifts and your intuitive gifts develop more and more and integrate more and more.
The more you heal,
The more you grow,
And the more you get your energy balanced and aligned,
The more you raise your vibration.
And that vibration raising comes through healing and doing our inner work,
Releasing the energies that are not in alignment with our most divinely aligned or soul aligned self.
And as we do that,
That brings our energy field into alignment with that eighth chakra so that it can kind of link up and connect in a deeper way.
And then we start to experience our intuitive gifts as a holistic unit more and more.
So if you're somebody that is very sensitive and you are highly clairsentient and you have sat around wondering why you didn't get the clairvoyance as much or you didn't get the clairaudience as much,
From my own personal journey,
What I will tell you is that I first identified as an empath primarily.
I was not aware of my other intuitive gifts.
I didn't even realize that I had them.
All I knew was empathy.
All I knew was feeling the burdens of others.
And for me,
I'm not only an emotional empath,
But a physical empath as well.
So I,
For a long time,
Not only would absorb the emotional energy of others,
But I would also feel their pain.
So if somebody had a physical injury or if they had some kind of illness that they were dealing with,
I would feel that in my body as well.
And that's something also to be aware of if you're an empath.
As a side note,
That we often reference empathy as being an emotional thing,
But it can also be a physical thing as well.
So if you're somebody that has struggled with a lot of physical unexplained illnesses,
Exhaustion,
Autoimmune disease,
Feeling unexplained pains or sensations in your body out of the blue,
You could also be a physical empath.
And it could mean that you're actually picking up on the electromagnetic and electrical frequencies in someone else's body,
In your etheric body.
And then your body is processing that information as pain or physical sensation as well.
So empaths are not necessarily just intuitively feeling emotional energy.
It can also be physical energy as well,
Which comes through as electrical energy and then physical sensation.
So we can actually feel energy very deeply and process it in the inner two layers of our energy body,
The etheric body,
Which is highly connected to electromagnetic and electrical energy,
And the emotional body,
Which is the second auric layer,
And that's the emotional energy,
Okay?
So that's a side note to keep in mind because you might have an aha moment of,
Oh,
Maybe all these things that I feel in my body as physical might not be mine.
So why is empathy so important?
Why is feeling the stuff from others and from our environment so important as a primary gift?
Why did we get stuck with this?
We all have different reasons as a soul for coming in with this as our primary gift that's online first.
And there are many reasons why it could be the most obvious gift to you intuitively.
But one of the things I've noticed for myself and for others is that the intuitive gift of clairsentience or empathy actually is a critical piece that's very important to master or begin mastering before we start leaning on our other gifts more and more.
And the reason why is discernment.
So if we think about the other senses,
Say specifically clairvoyance and clairaudience,
So hearing and seeing,
When we're hearing information,
When we're getting clairaudient information or when we're getting clairvoyant information,
We're essentially just hearing words or we're seeing an image.
And if we take those words and we take that image at surface value without processing it through our empathic filter,
We could actually be duped for a lack of a better way to say it.
Because we don't necessarily think to look at where did that information come from?
Who did it come from?
Who am I hearing speaking in my mind?
Where is this visual image coming from?
Who is projecting this into my mind's eye?
Is it coming from my guides?
Is it coming from my higher self?
Or is it coming from a source outside of myself?
There are many people that can pick up on telepathic information that come from people's lower thoughts or lower mental information,
Thought forms and things like that.
And if we're taking in everything we hear and see as truth or we don't run it through a filter of some kind,
We could get easily tricked by the information that we're seeing.
And this is where we see negativity and predictions and things like that coming from intuitives that may not always be accurate or helpful.
Because if we're not running that direct information that's auditory or visual through a filter and we're not feeling into it first to feel into does this feel true to me when I see this in my mind's eye or when I hear this information,
How does it make me feel in my body?
Does it feel true to me?
Does it make me feel yucky inside?
Or does it make me feel uplifted?
This is such an important and critical skill to develop as an intuitive.
And as we develop our spiritual gifts,
We need to be able to lean on that empathic self,
The sensitive self that can feel into things to determine how information that's coming in a more direct way,
So that visual and auditory information lands in the body.
Just because you see it and hear it and just because it's intuitive doesn't make it true.
But you can't trick the body.
If something is coming through intuitively that's visual or auditory,
That is not aligned or that isn't true for you or that's not helpful or right for you or that's coming from a lower place,
Your body will feel that immediately.
And your body will say,
This doesn't feel good and will want to reject it.
So I'm telling you this because I want you to reframe your viewpoint on empathy as a gift,
Seeing it as a lesser than gift or it's not as cool as the other ones or it's much more of a burden than the other ones because it actually is the most critical,
Fundamental,
Foundational gift to develop if we want to be in alignment with our soul self because it is the most powerful filter for discernment that we have for our environment,
For our relationships and for the information that's coming in.
Now where this gets a little hairy for people sometimes is that because feeling so much can be so challenging and can create so much pain and suffering for us,
As we're learning to create solid boundaries,
As we're learning to clear out energies that don't belong to us,
As we're learning to discern what is mine and what is not mine,
All of those are part of a really important learning journey that we are on that can make us such powerful intuitives,
Healers and discerners of truth.
But we're often,
Because of that difficulty with the empathic gift,
Dissociated from our body and its signals because it feels difficult to be in our body when we're being bombarded by lower frequencies all the time.
And so one of the first steps of developing your other gifts and aligning as an empath into something that doesn't feel as painful or difficult for you is to heal and release the density that you're holding that doesn't belong to you and to repair and heal your own inner imbalances so that you have solid boundaries and so that it feels comfortable to be in your own body.
Once you start to get comfortable and more grounded in your own body,
Then we're able to use that empathic gift more and more as a tool to discern the other information that we're getting intuitively.
So there's a specific path of the empath's journey,
And that can often be starting as having this awareness that you are an empath first.
It's becoming aware of how sensitive you are,
Of that you're feeling everything around you and that maybe what you're feeling isn't necessarily yours.
The second step is learning how to clear what isn't yours and starting to create more solid boundaries for you and then healing the inner wounds that you have within yourself that allow for that absorption of energy or that energy exchange that's not healthy for you to resolve and clear because many of us have dynamics that we have developed in childhood that we unconsciously do energetically to try to keep us safe from the environment,
From the people around us,
From other people's emotions,
To keep our environment more stable.
That's not actually helping us now and so healing those things is very,
Very important.
As we do that inner work,
As we heal and release these different things,
Our boundaries become more solid and then when that happens,
We're able to bring more of our soul essence into our body without feeling drained,
Without feeling pain,
Without suffering and we can feel more comfortable in our body and our being because it's not holding all this density that doesn't belong to us.
As that process starts to unfold,
Then we may start to become aware of our other intuitive gifts.
We may start to become more clairaudient or clairvoyant or claircognizant and we can lean on those other intuitive gifts more and more and then the pressure starts to come off of our empathy but what's really important here is to learn to use your clairsentience as a filter for information,
For those higher frequencies of information that's intuitive to discern whether something is true or not for you or is right for you and to empower yourself as that discerner of energy and information and to learn to trust that discernment.
One of the greatest wounds that a lot of empaths have is not being believed because growing up and earlier in life and even into adulthood,
We can feel what's under the surface and we can feel the true intentions behind something so easily,
We might pick up on that and if there are times in your life where you've said,
Oh hey,
You know,
I feel like you're angry about this or I feel like this is what's really going on and everyone around you is saying,
No,
You're crazy,
That's not true or that's not what's really happening,
You've probably learned to either doubt yourself or if you haven't doubted yourself,
You've learned to keep your mouth shut about what you feel to be true and now you're in defense mode,
You're trying to defend against what you feel is going on energetically that no one else can see and this can cause us to feel really isolated,
It can cause us to doubt ourselves,
It can cause us to have a really funky relationship with trust of ourselves,
Of others,
Of spirit,
Of energy,
So working to heal those wounds around trust to learn to really deeply trust ourselves and our senses and our gifts and know that we can trust ourselves even if others aren't seeing or feeling what we are is a difficult journey but that is one of your most powerful assets in terms of being an empath.
One of the things that we're starting to experience in society right now is actually the revealing of what has been very hidden for a very long time,
Maybe some of the things that you've known to be true for a long time that you felt to be true are starting to come out and be revealed physically in your personal life and in the collective and you might be starting to say I've known that forever and now it's just finally being seen by others and so this is a really important time for empaths to start to reclaim their power around discernment and around trusting their own senses about what's true and not true or about what is under the surface that others can't feel that's starting to come to light because this is a really great time to start to reclaim that power and heal those wounds around not being believed because we're coming into a time where other people who aren't as sensitive are going to begin seeing those truths that you've known for a long,
Long time.
So if you're somebody that is having some aha moments around this and you would like some extra support around healing some of these things or around specific challenges that you might be having as an empath and you're wanting to heal some of these wounds and challenges that you've had around clairsentience so that you can come more into balance with your intuitive gifts,
Repair your energy body,
Create more solid boundaries in your field and start to experience some of your other gifts more and more,
I highly recommend my Pleiadian Empath Healing Course so you can access that and I just really want you to know that there is a reason for the difficulty and challenge that you've experienced as an empath and that it does lead to something really beautiful,
Really aligned and really empowered for yourself.
This isn't something that you have to suffer with for your whole life.
There is actually a specific path and journey through for you that can bring what maybe has been the most difficult challenge for you in your life into alignment and into the most powerful gift that you have and most powerful offering that you might have for the world and for the collective.
So I'm sending all you empaths out there a lot of love because I know how challenging it can be and I want you to know that you also have a lot of support from your spirit guides and from your higher self as well and you can always call upon those resources to help you clear energy,
Work with your energy,
Understand something better,
Come into more alignment with yourself but it does require your permission and your engagement with them in order to do that.
So start exercising that tool for yourself.
So thank you for being here and I'm sending you so much love and support as you move through this month and I will see you next time.